You know as a mom or a dad it can be pretty easy to get upset when things don't go your way

But if we're honest the reason we get mad in those situations might be because we're focusing a little too much or maybe a lot

on what we want. I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny Werta who heads up our parenting

team and let's go ahead now and hear from Gary Thomas.

He shares about good and bad types of anger

that you might encounter as a parent.

Here's Focus President Jim Daly with Gary.

Hey today I want to move into another kind of difficult subject.

That's anger.

Parenting and anger, they just seem to go together.

And maybe you're listening and you're saying,

well, I've never had that problem.

God bless you.

That's a wonderful thing, that you got the joy of the Lord.

But many parents, we do struggle with that anger.

First of all, how did you address that in the book?

You said it's natural but dangerous.

How do we avoid compounding that anger in that moment?

And how do we just pull back and not express it inappropriately?

Anger is certainly one of the key occupational hazards of parenting.

A pastor of a church about two to three hundred which is a good sized church but it was

enough to where he knew most of the people in his church

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